Annie had promised to arrive in the morning, direct from Beijing, and Mae was having trouble concentrating while waiting.

Dave Eggers -- The Circle

Or the footage of angels plucking a military helicopter out of the sky and tossing it into the Beijing crowd, blade-first.

Susan Ee -- Angelfall

Cinder was the only full-service mechanic at New Beijing’s weekly market.

Marissa Meyer -- Cinder

Jia Hong-yu, our district’s most famous Red Guard leader, had returned from Beijing and would give her report at a neighborhood meeting.

Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl

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All the incoming flights from Beijing?

Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

She knows this because she and my father have just returned from a trip to Beijing and Taiyuan.

Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

Clocks in Tibet are set to reflect the Beijing time zone, which is two hours and fifteen minutes ahead of the Nepal time zone e.

Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

Mrs. Penhallow—Jia—used to run the Beijing Institute.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

I’m leaving for Beijing.

Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

They had no say in what to plant: the central government in Beijing decided that.

Li Cunxin -- Mao’s Last Dancer

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"Ah, Beijing," the doctor said.

Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter’s Daughter

The cooler heads in Beijing are ignored in favour of more aggressive elements who want to save face through military control.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

The black-and-white photographs peer down from the walls, framed beside prizewinning stories of wars and upheavals and great tragedies, datelined Berlin, Beijing, Johannesburg, Moscow, any place news has been committed.

Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin’

Judging from the books, she could be in Jamaica or Namibia, Topeka or Beijing.

John Green -- Paper Towns

He also organized rallies against the hard-liners in Beijing in the flag plaza of the UN.

Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker

Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo.

John Ringo -- Live Free or Die

Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3 echoed with the cacophony common to huge air terminals.

Andy Weir -- The Martian

Among the new Jason Bourne’s clients was a madman in Beijing, a Kuomintang traitor in the government who was about to turn the Far East into a firestorm.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

The anthropologist Yunxiang Yan has noted that in the eyes of Beijing consumers, McDonald’s represents "Americana and the promise of modernization."